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Bernard Reich

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

Monroe 413
2115 G Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-6716
Fax: (202) 994-7743
E-mail: breich@gwu.edu

Education:

Ph.D., University of Virginia

Expertise:

Middle Eastern politics, terrorism, U.S.-Israel relations, Arab-Israeli conflict, Israel and, oil politics

Background:

Professor Reich received his B.A. from the City College of New York and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He serves as a consultant to various United States government agencies. He is Chairman of Advanced Area Studies (Middle East – Fertile Crescent) at the Department of State's Foreign Service Institute, and a member of the adjunct faculty of the United States Air Force Special Operations School and the Naval School of Health Science. He holds the Marine Corps War College Chair of National Security Economic Affairs. He is a member of the Board of Advisory Editors of the Middle East Journal and of the International Editorial Board of Israel Affairs.

He has lived in the Middle East on Fulbright and National Science Foundation Fellowships and has visited at the invitation of the governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt and Morocco. He has testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and completed studies for the Joint Economic Committee of the Congress and for the Congressional Research Service. He visited the Soviet Union six times between the 1970s and the 1990s at the invitation of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He visited the German Democratic Republic in 1990 at the invitation of its Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Institute for International Relations. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), the Middle East Institute, and a Fellow of the Middle East Studies Association.

He is the author of a number of books including Quest for Peace: United States-Israel Relations and the Arab-Israeli Conflict; The Unitd States and Israel: Influence in the Special Relationship; Israel: Land of Tradition and Conflict; Historical Dictionary of Israel; Securing the Covenant: United States-Israel Relations After the Cold War. He is also co-author, editor, or co-editor of a number of other works (including Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa — now in its fourth edition — and An Historical Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict) and more than 70 articles that have appeared in numerous American and foreign journals.

Courses Taught:

PSc 176 The Arab-Israeli Conflict
PSc 177 Compartive Politics of the Middle East
PSc 178 International Relations of the Middle East
PSc 179 Israeli Politics and Foreign Policy
Psc 192 Oil Politics
PSc 276 The Arab-Israeli Conflict
PSc 277 Comparative Politics of the Middle East
PSc 278 International Relations of the Middle East
PSc 279 The Powers in the Middle East
PSc 280 Governments and Politics of North Africa

Last update: 07.11.07